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This Week's Stories: Does Steve have coronavirus? Maybe? He got very sick over the weekend and is still coughing, but he couldn't get tested. Mayhem ensues after last week's Patch Tuesday List of free technology services during coronavirus, from Adobe to Zoom The state of open source vulnerabilities The "EARN IT" act is a despicable attack on encryption and freedom of speech. Please call your congressperson and tell them not to support it. The SMBGhost Fiasco Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT FreshBooks.com/securitynow WWT.COM/TWIT

This Week's Stories Microsoft, Google, LogMeIn & Cisco offer limited-time free use of telecommuting Tools Hack the Pentagon! The Android security dilemma AMD processors get some unwelcome but necessary side-channel attack scrutiny Intel also has some serious new trouble on its hands SETI@home shuts down its distributed computing project after 21 years Critical PPP daemon flaw opens most Linux systems to remote hackers FuzzBench: fuzzer benchmarking as a service Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: plextrac.com/twit Melissa.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30

This Week's Stories Lets Encrypt hits 1 BILLION certs Pakistan passes Internet censorship law Clearview AI breach: clients and searches stolen Swiss government submits criminal complaint over CIA Crypto spying scandal Ghostcat - (Apache) Tomcat Users: Update NOW! Revisiting OCSP Must Staple Kr00k: serious WiFi vulnerability affecting more than a billion devices Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: LastPass.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT expressvpn.com/securitynow

This Week's Security News: More Windows 10 lost profile pain A micropatch for the jscript.dll problem Coming in the next Feature Release (Win10 2004): optional device driver updates A new attack on 4G LTE and 5G Starting today: DoH by default on Firefox A new next-generation WebAssembly sandbox is coming first to Linux and Mac and then to Windows Chrome was just updated to close a 0-day attack Safari will only trust certificates with a validity of 398 days or less Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: Wasabi.com offer code SECURITYNOW plextrac.com/twit privacy.com/securitynow

TWiT Audience Survey- ENDS FEBRUARY 19TH!!! It's time for TWiT's annual audience survey and we want to hear from you! It only takes five minutes. Please visit twit.tv/survey and let us know what you think. There's no sign-up form and we don't track you. Your feedback helps us make TWiT even better." This Week's Stories How to fix the Windows 7 "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." error Win10's "One Button PC Reset" fails after KB4524244. And, also... "The new disappearing User Profile problem" (Desktop and all user data) The popular "GDPR Cookie Consent" Wordpress plugin had a critical flaw Whoa! The average tenure of a CISO is just 26 months due to high stress and burnout Microsoft's "ElectionGuard" being used for the first time today! IoT lightbulb vulnerabilities are not such a joke, after all. SweynTooth Vulnerabilities: a set of more than 12 newly discovered vulnerabilities across a wide range of Bluetooth devices, many of which will never be updated, which allow for, among other things, full device compromise. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-754-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT FreshBooks.com/securitynow canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT

Twitter, Google, and Facebook tell Clearview AI to stop stealing your face to catch crooks The NIST is testing methods to recover data from smashed smartphones Whoa! We get to REMAIN with Security Essentials under Windows 7! Microsoft drops a fix for the wallpaper stretch black screen Windows 7 users are being told: "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." Win10 Firefox users being "reminded" about Edge Last week Google closed an Android RCE flaw in the BlueTooth daemon. Data Exfiltration Technique of the Week CIA Uses Crypto AG to spy on the world Chrome 80 appeared last week with its implementation of the updated handling of the optional "SameSite" enforcement cookie property We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-753-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: plextrac.com/twit itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30 Melissa.com/twit

This Week's Stories: - L1D Eviction Sampling becomes "CacheOut" - Only one final version of Windows? - Windows 7 and the Free Software Foundation - Windows 7's final patch broke wallpaper stretching - RCE Exploit for Windows RDP Gateway Demoed by Researcher - Google more than doubles its own bug bounty record - The return of Roskomnadzor! - Facebook DID get fined, but not by Russia - who exactly owns our biometric data? - Avast Jumpshot missed the hoop - An Update on the WireGuard VPN in the Linux kernel - In this week's Best Hack of the New Decade... a little red wagon Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: expressvpn.com/securitynow WWT.COM/TWIT LastPass.com/twit

This Week's Stories: Is Apple actually encrypting our iCloud storage backups? 250 Million Microsoft Customer Support Records Exposed Online New York state is aiming to ban the use of public funds for Ransomware New Muhstik Botnet Attacks Target Tomato Routers Chrome under attack from browser extensions Firefox under attack from browser extensions NIST publishes a new Privacy Framework Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices A Welcome "Micro Patch" for the Windows IE jscript.dll 0-day vulnerability SHA-1 is a Shambles. Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsor: privacy.com/securitynow

This Week's Stories: iPhones join Android in being a Google account security key. How much "substantive assistance" did Apple provide in the Pensacola investigation? A brand new serious Internet Explorer 0-day Giving Windows an additional Edge FBI says nation-state actors breached a US city government and a US financial entity by exploiting Pulse Secure VPN servers. Critical new Windows Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) remote code execution vulnerability SQRL for Drupal Microsoft issues security update to fix "CurveBall" vulnerability Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: WWT.COM/TWIT Melissa.com/twit Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow

This Week's Stories: Windows 7 support dies today, but 1 in 7 PCs are still running it Cablehaunt- the remote exploit with the catchy logo that works on ALL cable modems US government still wants backdoor access to iPhones CheckRain iPhone jailbreak keeps getting better How Apple scans your photos for evidence of child abuse The sim swapping threat Anatomy/timeline of the exploitation of an unpatched VPN bug And speaking of patching right away... patch your Firefox browser right now! Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: FreshBooks.com/securitynow canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT expressvpn.com/securitynow

This Week's Stories The Deadly Seven top cybersecurity attacks Russia successfully cuts itself off from the rest of the internet. Love Wawa? Surprise! Your credit card has been stolen. Huge Point of Sale attack on all of Landry's restaurants, including Rainforest Cafe. Python 2.7 Reaches End of Life After 20 Years. HackerOne's 20 top bug bounty programs A proposed standard for making warrant canaries machine-readable Xiaomi IoT camera owners can watch other Xiaomi users' video feeds. Microsoft is wrong on RDP vulnerability. Hosts: Steve Gibson and Jason Howell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30 LastPass.com/twit WWT.COM/TWIT

The best of Security Now from 2019. Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

On this Eve of 2020, we look back over the hacks of the past decade: The big news of 2010 was Stuxnet -- Boy did THAT make an impression Operation Aurora - the hack that changed Google The Sony Playstation Hack And then we have... Diginotar Edward Snowden The Target hack The Adobe hack Silk Road takedown Have I Been Pwned? The hack of Sony Pictures The hack of Mt. Gox Heartbleed RowHammer Ashley Madison data breach SIM swapping The Ukraine power grid hacks DNC hack Yahoo hacks go public The Shadow Brokers The birth of IoT botnets WannaCry / Petya / NotPetya Vault7 leaks MongoDB exposed Equifax Coinhive & Cryptojacking Meltdown, Spectre, and the CPU side-channel attacks Marriott gets hacked 2019 - The Year of the Ransomware We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-746-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

This Week's Stories: Google turns over 1500 users' location data to catch Milwaukee arsonist Android's Messenger app offers its users verified SMS messaging conversations with supporting companies US Senate Judiciary Committee threatens Apple and Facebook Apple's iOS v13.3 adds support for hardware key dongle authentication in Safari Patch Tuesday shuts down a widespread elevation of privilege vulnerability Researchers discover prime factor collisions in active RSA certificates New Orleans hit by a ransomware attack on Friday the 13th Chrome stops displaying "www." Google re-enables their Chrome's new code integrity protection feature Plundervolt: software-based fault injection attacks against Intel SGX We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-745-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: brave.com/TWIT Wasabi.com offer code SecurityNow expressvpn.com/securitynow

This Week's Stories Microsoft has started forcing feature updates on people who don't want them. Bypass to continue obtaining Win7 updates created. Microsoft's Project Verona continues moving forward. Microsoft's RDP client for iOS is back. Avast / AVG in the doghouse. Making a mountain out of a VPN molehill. We invite you to read our show notes at https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-744-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now! at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT WWT.COM/TWIT itpro.tv/securitynow promo code SN30